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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2006
Michael J. Ehmann, Geneseo, NY (US);
Michael J. Ehmann, Geneseo, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A printer and method for operating a printer are provided. The printer has a printhead adapted to heat a thermal donor medium to transfer donor material from a donor web to a receiver medium; a receiver medium path having guides shaped to direct receiver medium along a receiver medium travel path to and from a position in registration with the printhead with said receiver medium path having at least one change of receiver medium direction therein causing said receiver medium to bend; and a motorized platen for moving receiver medium through the receiver medium path, wherein said receiver medium path is further shaped so that the change in receiver medium direction occurs in a portion of the receiver medium path that takes the receiver medium from a position in registration with the printhead.